In addition, the atrium deploys bio-filtration terrariums occupying hollow Spaces within the floors, thus acting as the buildings lungs to provide clean air to its occupants.

此外，这个中庭有效地在地板的空间内利用生物过滤容器，就如同建筑物的肺部为其居住者提供清新干净的空气一样。

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Once completed, the clean air power plant, called "Bright Source" will use the sun to provide energy for up to 140,000 homes and provide jobs for about 1,000 people.

这家名为“光明之源”的不污染空气的发电厂一旦落成，将利用太阳来为多达14万的住户提供能源，并且为大约1千人提供就业机会。

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For years, public health researchers have been running projects that demonstrate that asthma symptoms can be substantially reduced by working in homes to remove or clean moldy carpets, provide indoor air filters and reduce infestations of dust mites and cockroaches.

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Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.

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Plants provide invaluable services, they provide us with the very air we breathe, clean water and fertile soil and they help regulate the climate.

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